Move nix-serve guide from Nix manual to nix.dev
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Description
Move the contents of Serving a Nix store via HTTP to a stand-alone guide on nix.dev.
Up-to-date documentation on nix-serve: https://github.com/edolstra/nix-serve
Important
add a redirect on nixos.org, otherwise existing links will break
Context
This is to be able to implement https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/7769 without loss.
It's not clear how important this use case is, but for the sake of completeness we should find a new home for this guide and later decide if it's still supposed to be a supported use case.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the existing guide in doc/manual/src/package-management/binary-cache-substituter.md and compare it with the current nix-serve documentation linked in the issue. Identify the appropriate stand-alone guide location on nix.dev, then update nixos-homepage/netlify.toml with a redirect. Done means the guide is available on nix.dev and existing links continue to resolve.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100